boli me grlo
“boli me grlo” — my throat hurts in Slovenian. Phrase, level A2. r between consonants is a syllable of its own: BOH-lee meh GRL-oh. In a live sentence: “Od jutra me boli grlo” — My throat has hurt since morning. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Slovenian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Slovenian | boli me grlo |
| Translation | my throat hurts |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
- boli me grlomy throat hurts
How to pronounce it
r between consonants is a syllable of its own: BOH-lee meh GRL-oh
Why it looks that way
built like boli me glava: the aching part is the subject, the person is in the accusative; the clitic me clings to the verb and never opens a sentence
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- Od jutra me boli grloMy throat has hurt since morning
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “my throat hurts” in Slovenian?
«boli me grlo». r between consonants is a syllable of its own: BOH-lee meh GRL-oh. In a live sentence: “Od jutra me boli grlo” — My throat has hurt since morning. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
built like boli me glava: the aching part is the subject, the person is in the accusative; the clitic me clings to the verb and never opens a sentence. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how it sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.